Tennis

We have announced that Fridays at each of its major grass court events this month will become 'Friday Pride Days' in celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Speaking about the Pride Month celebrations, Dave Hardman, the LTA’s Inclusion Development Manager, said: “It’s important for everyone to be able to feel like they can be their authentic self, and so we want to ensure we use our high-profile summer tennis events this month to demonstrate that tennis is a sport where everyone can feel accepted and welcomed. It needs all of us who love tennis to help make people feel like our sport is one for them, and so it’s great the LTA is helping to do that through Friday Pride Days this summer”. The Pride Month celebrations build on the launch at the LTA’s National Tennis Centre earlier this year of Pride in Tennis, the LGBTQ+ network for Tennis in Britain, and representatives from the network will be helping the LTA celebrate Pride Month.

The LTA has announced the launch the LTA Tennis Foundation, a new charity that partners with people and organisations to improve lives through tennis.

With the launch of the new LTA Tennis Foundation, there is a chance to go much further and use the resources at the charity’s disposal to support more projects and partners across tennis. “We will work hard to build partnerships with existing charities and organisations to understand how we can best support them in the years ahead. The charity will give loans or grants to help partners deliver new projects or to scale up existing work so they can reach a larger number of individuals.

PARIS — For 30 weeks in 2006, Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo was ranked No. 1 in the world, a champion of that year's Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Mauresmo also expanded women’s role in tennis as coach of former No. 1 Andy Murray for a time. “ When you have this — it’s an interesting one, because as I was saying, the fact that it’s right now a one-match night session is tough on this. Serena Williams, the sport’s 23-time Grand Slam champion, hasn’t competed in 11 months, not since her first-round loss at Wimbledon last year. Appeal? — for the men’s matches,” Mauresmo said, asked about the gender imbalance in the scheduling of the feature night match on Court Philippe-Chatrier. “My goal was when I was doing the schedule every day to try and see, and from the first rounds, from the first round, when the draw came out, to try and see what match in the woman's draw can I put there, honestly,” she said. “The confrontation or the star that I could put there.

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Women's tennis is not as appealing as men's tennis at the moment, French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo s...

Appeal? That’s the general, for the men’s matches,” former two-time Grand Slam champion Mauresmo said. Asked about the scheduling of the night session, Mauresmo told reporters that it would have been ‘difficult’ to give spectators with a single ticket for the evening to see only female players. It happened on Tuesday, when the Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic epic quarter-final clash finished around 1.15 am.

Amelie Mauresmo, who is in her first year as the French Open's first female tournament director, said on Wednesday that nine of the 10 night sessions at ...

"That's actually a key issue that needs to be settled, and that will be one of our priorities in the future," Mauresmo said. Available to download now on - iPhone & iPad and Android Night sessions at the US Open, for example, usually include one women's match and one men's match. what match in the woman's draw can I put there? "That's the general (reasons) for the men's matches." It dropped below 15 degrees during his quarter-final.

PARIS (AP) — Amelie Mauresmo, a former No. 1 player who is in her first year as the French Open's first female tournament director, said Wednesday that nine ...

“That’s actually a key issue that needs to be settled, and that will be one of our priorities in the future,” Mauresmo said. If we continue with these night sessions in this direction, people need to leave the stadium late enough and make sure that they have a way to come back home, as they should.” Her session with reporters was held the morning after 13-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal's 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) quarterfinal victory over defending champion Novak Djokovic in Tuesday's night session. Night sessions at the U.S. Open, for example, usually include one women's match and one men's match. It dropped below 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius) during his quarterfinal. "That's the general (reasons) for the men's matches.”

Mauresmo said there was 'more attraction' to men's matches when trying to explain the lop-sided scheduling.

“Obviously it's not simple,” said Mauresmo, in the first of many vague answers on this subject on Wednesday. “It's the first year that I'm the tournament director. “If we continue with these night sessions, people need to leave the stadium late enough and make sure that they have a way to come back home. I'm learning a lot of things regarding the scheduling of the tournament. We haven't planned anything yet, but obviously we need to organise ourselves differently with bus systems, with the underground system. The organisers have agreed on a start time of 8.45pm local time, but this became predictably problematic when Nadal and Djokovic set out on one of their four-hour epics. But former Wimbledon champion Mauresmo was also queried about the one-sided scheduling throughout this event, in which only one out of the 10 night-session matches was played by women.

PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) - Women's tennis is not as appealing as men's tennis at the moment, French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo said after ...

Appeal? That's the general, for the men's matches," former two-time Grand Slam champion Mauresmo said. It happened on Tuesday, when the Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic epic quarter-final clash finished around 1.15 am. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

New French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo says nine of the 10 night session matches at Roland Garros this year involved men because women's tennis ...

Mauresmo also expanded women’s role in tennis as coach of former No. 1 Andy Murray for a time. “ When you have this — it’s an interesting one, because as I was saying, the fact that it’s right now a one-match night session is tough on this. Serena Williams, the sport’s 23-time Grand Slam champion, hasn’t competed in 11 months, not since her first-round loss at Wimbledon last year. Appeal? — for the men’s matches,” Mauresmo said, asked about the gender imbalance in the scheduling of the feature night match on Court Philippe-Chatrier. “My goal was when I was doing the schedule every day to try and see, and from the first rounds, from the first round, when the draw came out, to try and see what match in the woman's draw can I put there, honestly,” she said. “The confrontation or the star that I could put there.

CHATTANOOGA --- The Chattanooga Mocs women's tennis team and head coach Chad Camper have added a familiar name to the 2022-23 roster with the International ...

The Chattanooga women's tennis team will be announcing additional signings ahead of the 2022-23 season in the coming days. She was the only competitor in the league who won all six singles matches over three different weekends of play. She helped anchor a doubles squad that captured the Open National Tournament title last April.